The Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Awards

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to request nominations for the 2019 Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Awards. These awards are intended to honor truly distinguished dissertations in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, with one award available in each of the three broad disciplinary areas. Eligible dissertations are those written by students whose Ph.D. was conferred by the Graduate School between July 2017 and May 2018.

Nomination process: nominations should be submitted by the director of graduate studies via Box. The nomination packet should consist of one PDF document containing in the following order:

a letter of nomination from the director of graduate studies, department chair, or program director;

a letter from the faculty mentor and readers that explain the dissertation's contribution and level of scholarship;

a current vita from the nominee; and

the dissertation abstract.

For those dissertations that bridge two or more fields, the nomination letter should designate within which disciplinary area – humanities, social sciences, or sciences – the dissertation ought to be considered. Although not required, programs are encouraged to include external letters as part of their nomination.

Review Process: nominations in each area will be reviewed by members of the Graduate Research Steering Committee. Awards will be given for only truly distinguished scholarship and should be seen as significant honors; thus, there is no guarantee of award in any one disciplinary area in a given year.

Award: recipients will be presented with a certificate at the 2018 Graduate Commencement ceremony and a cash prize of $2,500. More significant, though, is the respect given the dissertation by the author’s mentor, committee, and the senior faculty who reviewed the dissertation.

2017 Glassman Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences: Dr. Anna J. Markowitz (PhD in Psychology, 2016), "The Role of School Engagement and Educational Policy in the Development of Socio-Emotional Skills" (Citation)

2016 Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities: Dr. Erin S. Mauldin (PhD in History, 2014), "Unredeemed Land: The U.S. Civil War, Changing Land Use Practices, and the Environmental Limitations of Agriculture in the South, 1840-1880"(Citation)

2012 Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities: Andrew R. Robarts (PhD in History, 2011), "A Plague on Both Houses? Population Movement and the Spread of Disease Across the Ottoman-Russian Black Sea Frontier, 1768-1830s"

2012 Glassman Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences: Luis Cerezo Ceballos (PhD in Spanish Linguistics, 2010), "Talking to Avatars: The Computer as Tutor and the Incidence of Learner’s Agency, Feedback, and Grammatical Form in SL"

2011 Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities:Megan Brandow-Faller (Ph.D. in History, 2010), "An Art of Their Own: Reinventing Frauenkunst in the Female Academies and Artist Leagues of Late Imperial and First Republic Austria, 1900-1930"

2011 Glassman Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences:Gregory Scott Weiner (Ph.D. in Government, 2010) "Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution and the Tempo of American Politics"

2006 Glassman Award in the Humanities: Henriette de Bruyn Kops (Ph.D. in History, 2005), "Liquid Silver: The Wine and Brandy Trade Between Nantes and Rotterdam in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century"

2004 Glassman Award in the Humanities: Jeffrey T. Zalar (Ph.D. in History, 2003), "Knowledge and Nationalism in Imperial Germany: A Cultural History of the Association of Saint Charles Borromeo, 1890-1914"

2002 Glassman Award in the Social Sciences: Takae Tsujioka (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2001), "The Syntax of Possession in Japanese"

2001 Glassman Award in the Sciences: David Abdallah (Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2000), "Anisotropic Assemblies in Neat and Lyotropic Phases of Alkanes. Alkanes with One Hetero- Atom, and Ammonium and Phosphonium Salts with One to Four Long N-Alkyl Chains"

2001 Glassman Award in the Social Sciences: El Houcine Haichour (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2000), "A Corpus Linguistics Analysis of English and Arabic Parallel Business Discourse Domains"

1999 Glassman Award in the Social Sciences: Donna Van Cott (Ph.D. in Government, 1998),"Constitution-making and Democratic Transformation: The Bolivian and Colombian Constitutional Reforms"

1997 Glassman Award in the Social Sciences: Haleh Vaziri (Ph.D. in Government, 1995), "The Islamic Republic and its Neighbors: Ideology and the National Interest in Iran’s Foreign Policy During the Khomeini Decade"